GENERAL
| SCHOOL | School of Economics and Political Science |
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| DEPARTMENT | Sociology |
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| Level of Study | Undergraduate |
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| COURSE CODE | 431106 |
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| COURSE TITLE | Modern Mobility Regimes Asylum Asylum Diaspora Transnationality Nomadism (YE) |
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| Independent Teaching Activities |
Weekly Teaching Hours |
CREDIT UNITS |
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| Course Type | General Background |
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| Prerequisite Courses | No |
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| Teaching and Examination Language | Greek |
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| THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS | No |
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| Course Webpage (URL) | https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/SOC242/ |
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(2) LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
- they have clarified key concepts surrounding migratory mobility and integrated it into broader social processes and relations.
- they have become familiar with the relevant literature and discussion
- are able to perceive the different mobility regimes and integrate them into the relevant theoretical and political debates
- they can wonder about the possibilities of empirical investigation of the various mobility regimes
General Capabilities
- Cultivation of reflective thought and critical thinking,
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary tools: literature search, project execution: individual or team work
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Generation of new research ideas
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism, demonstration of social, professional, and ethical responsibility and gender sensitivity
(3) COURSE CONTENT
The course examines human mobility on a global scale, analyzing forms and regimes of mobility, from refugee flows and migration to new forms of nomadism. It focuses on the concepts of asylum, diaspora, transnationalism, and precarious mobility. It also explores mobility control policies, borders, identities, and the lived experiences of mobile subjects. The course connects empirical research with theoretical elaborations surrounding mobility and globalization.
The sections that will be covered are the following:
- The example of the mobility/mobilities
- Mobility as a paradigm
- Mobility as an element of the fluidity of the modern world
- Mobility and migration
- The ”motor turn”
- Forms of mobility
- Urry vs Bauman
- The concept of regime and the autonomy of migration
- Immigration status
- Control vs./and the autonomy of migration
- Mobile Commons
- The right to the city
- Towards a genealogy of mobility regulation
- The idea of international/global mobility regulation
- Interwar period, displacements, «population exchanges»
- The birth of the refugee
- The post-war regulation of migration mobility
- The international/global background after World War II:
- Overpopulation
- Economic growth
- Global governance
- NGOization
- The International Organization for Migration
- Migration as a tool for economic growth
- Restrictive policies and paradigm shift
- The challenge of Europeanization/European integration
- The «Europeanization” of immigration and asylum policies
- Schengen
- Dublin
- Eurodac
- Common European Asylum System
- European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex
- Externalisation of European borders
- Privileged mobility, nomadism
- Privileged vs. undesirable mobility
- Lifestyle migration
- Golden Visa
- Digital nomads
- The impact of the pandemic
- New theoretical/empirical investigations: Diaspora and transnationality
- The concept and types of diaspora
- Postcolonial theory
- The concept and forms of transnationality
(4) TEACHING & LEARNING METHODS – EVALUATION
| DELIVERY METHOD | Face to face |
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| Information and Communication Technologies |
- PowerPoint presentation,
- Display of supporting audiovisual material
- Support of the learning process through the e-class electronic platform
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| Activity |
Semester Workload |
| Lectures |
39 |
| Work |
39 |
| Standalone Study |
69 |
| Participation in exams |
3 |
| Course Summary |
150 |
Student Evaluation
| Process Description Evaluation |
- Greek
- Optional written assignment
- Presentation of optional assignment
- Written examination
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(5) RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suggested Bibliography
- Ventoura, Lina (1994). Migration and Nation: Transformations in Collectivities and Social Positions, chapter: «Post-war Economic Migration to Western Europe».
- Ventoura, Lina (2006), Diaspora, Globalization and Collectivities, Synchrona Themata, 92, 31-39.
- Bauman, Zygmunt (2009), Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty, Chapter 2: «Humanity on the Move».
- Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch & Cristina Blanc-Szanton (1992), Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 645, No.1, 1-24.
- Kampouri, Nelly & Olga Lafazani (eds.), Marginal Resistances. Critical Approaches to Migration
- Karagiannis, Vangelis (2006), Migration – Transnationality – Mobility. Observations on transnational migration research, Synchrona Themata, 92, 23-30.
- McGarrigle, Jennifer (2022), Lifestyle Migration. In Peter Scholten (ed.), Introduction to Migration Studies. An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity, 169-177.
- Papageorgiou, Ioannis (2013), The Europeanization of immigration and asylum policies: from communitarization to collective supervision? Hellenic Review of Political Science, 40, 70-94.
- Parsanoglou, Dimitris & Konstantinos Tsitselikis (2015), The emergence of the International Regulation of Human Mobility. In Lina Venturas (ed.), “Migration Management” in the Early Cold War: The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, 13-32.
- Parsanoglou, Dimitris (2020). Commoning in Athens: migration and the right to the city. In Aikaterini S. Markou & Meglena Zlatkova (eds.), Post-Urbanities, cultural reconsiderations and tourism in the Balkans, 121-135.
- Parsanoglou, Dimitris (2020). Volunteering for refugees and the repositioning of state sovereignty and civil society: the case of Greece. Citizenship Studies, 24:4, 457-473.
- Parsanoglou, Dimitris (2020), What did the ‘refugee crisis’ leave behind? Shifts of the European border regime and national/state sovereignty, Social Policy, 12, 23-38.
- Parsanoglou, Dimitris (2024), The future is here, the future is now? The workplace in the post-pandemic world, Science and Society. Review of Political and Moral Theory, 44, 38-62.
- Petrakou, Ilektra (2006), Reflections on Diaspora Discourse: The Theoretical Approaches of Robin Cohen and James Clifford, Synchrona Themata, 92, 40-45.
- Sheller, Mimi & John Urry (2006), The new mobilities paradigm. Environment and Planning A, Vol. 38, 207-226.
- Urry, John (2009), Mobilities and Social Theory. In Bryan S. Turner (ed.), The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, 477-495.
Related Scientific Journals
- Citizenship Studies
- Science and Society
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- International Migration Review
- Contemporary Issues
